Mohamed from CityNotHost sent me an email about their latest VPS offer. It was Xen last time around, and now for $2.50/month you can get the following OpenVZ package.
- 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 50GB storage
- 1000GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Servers should be in Egypt, and do check our last post on comments regarding to their operations. That’s quite a lot of online storage for $2.50/month. How sustainable? I have no idea but they are backed by a telecommunication company there in Egypt. This kind of deals do make me wonder — what’s the point writing articles on running website on small VMs, when the cost of a cup of coffee can get you half a gig of memory with big disk and large data allowance (provided that those are not severely oversold :)
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good offer, looking for reviews before giving a try :)
392 KB/s = 1.03×10^9 kB/mo (kilobytes per month) = 1.03 TB/mo.
Wow nice!
I hope they have better I/O then the last Spacerich offer. I just cancelled that
I’d urge all readers of this website to check out the previous offer CityNetHost has on here. Some strong accusations were made regarding network quality, service etc… and the way Mohammed answered them didn’t really regain my confidence. Sure it’s cheap enough to try, but I will be staying well away.
@Dean — thanks for posting that. That explains 1TB/month. 3Mbps is not too bad though for many applications.
Thanks @Dean for posting the results. You saved my $2.5 :)
Download to NL server:
I personally find it funny to limit speed to 400KB, with a minimum ad campaign running, browsing the site would be more slugish then having an oversold node. Just imagine all visitors with at least 3 mbps broadband when 1 person loads a page with some media (like a gallery), even having a few pics he will request the max available speed and how will it feel when there will be 20 visitors on the same page? 150kbps with spikes per visitor?
I see some providers offering 10mpbs unlimited, but going for 100mbps capped is *always* a better decision when it comes to hosting something more then an app or a blog about my cat (like a vb/ipb forum, a gallery).
I’m always happy when I am able to download with my maximum 20mbps (without any peering!) speed from any part of the word as long as the server supports it and I totally wouldn’t want to remember my dark dial up days -.-
Raising your budget by like 1, 1.5$ you can get more or less the same offer from OVH or Hetzner resellers with proper 100mbps ports.
That was just a speed test from main web site (http://www.citynethost.com/10mbf.zip), how can you tell they are limiting anything on VPS nodes? I got almost 910 KB/s, but this doesn’t mean VPS node is limited or not limited. Dean’s post above is very misleading.
Bigger problem is, they are not accepting PayPal, it seems.
Well dyn is right.
But I talked with them and they told me “Our servers connected with 155mbps”.
I just think someone overload there network or smth.
FYI, from UK (xenvz)
Then it’s good offer for locals, maybe they can get a good burst in Egypt.
Just avoid this company. Even in Egypt they are not considered a good operator
@Anonymous: can you let me know best provider in Egypt
I purchased one of their VPSes the last time around, and have no complaints as of yet. Per-connection speeds are perfectly adequate, given the location – apt-get updates at over 2Mbps from the Debian mirror in Turkey – and their support seems perfectly competent.
Can they compete, in terms of infrastructure and connectivity, with datacenters in Hamburg, or Chicago, or Texas? Of course not. Are they trying to? No.
Are there anonymous bigots trying to defame them here? You work that one out…
Tor works fine as an exit node with this plan. I got the yearly $24 plan!
@Mike: LOL – not trying to defame anyone. Its just not a company that anyone who knew the market in Egypt would ever consider, thats probably why they are looking abroad for customers.
@Minh: TEData is best bet
Ping to their main site (citynethost.com) seems to be perfectly adequate from US and Europe: http://www.pingbrigade.com/result/b7486ecf331ba191d807d467eebb94bbdac9fd55#world. I guess that’s as good a metric as any since that’s where they host their test files (http://citynethost.com/testspeed.asp).
No Paypal? Dealbreaker for me.
@Michael,Anonymous few simple words don’t judge anything without giving it a try/practicing it.
@Mike,Nor your words are so much appreciated as it’s not a compliment you both are just people who have mind and thinking,trying fairly judging Pleasure to serve you and we’ll always improve our services for our clients.
Have a nice day all.
Khalid Ahmed
CityNet host sales team
### From Germany / Hetzner ###
### From UK / RackVM ###
Slow speeds for me too in Hetzner, DE. (Germany)
Hoo.ww….
It a gr88 price 24/yr with 512MBram bust 1024MB ram
main issue is the payment gateway its Creditcard its hard to provide for this type of company (lack of trust),
i would have give i try if they support paypal.
@ Anonymous >
Please let me know where in Egypt you can order VPS Server or Dedicated Server online, Pay online, get your server within few hours. CITYNETHOST.COM (only).
We are the only VPS and Dedicated Server Provider in Egypt with 24/7 Support and Lowest Prices, online support, 99.9% up time, ……….. !!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
Anonymous please let me know who are you.
@ PayPal posts > PAYPAL coming within few days
@Anonymous
TEData is best bet.
http://www.tedata.net They do not offer VPS or Dedicated Servers up till now 17-AUG-2010!!
I have Xen 256 account for 2 weeks and have received EXCELLENT service and help from CityNet.
I’m one happy customer and thrilled with the price and service. Fast enough speed too from Australia.
I intend to buy a 512meg and 50 GB VZ VPS as soon as they organise PayPal.
I chose Xen rather than OpenVZ during the sign up, realized that Xen wasn’t working with the software I wanted to run so I emailed Khalid – he said no problem and switched me over very quickly!
@Mtalaat – you cannot offer Paypal, Egypt is on the prohibited list for Paypal.
@Anonymous
Credit Card, CashU, and Wire Transfer payment available, PayPal very soon through UK Partner.
The benchmark was taken on CentOS 5.5 32-bit with Unix Bench 5.1.2:
OS: GNU/Linux — 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.028stab069.6 — #1 SMP Wed May 26 18:31:05 MSD 2010
Machine: i686 (i386)
Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap=”UTF-8″, collate=”UTF-8″)
CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.4 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.3 bogomips)
Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET
15:16:41 up 16:09, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01; runlevel 3
————————————————————————
Benchmark Run: Wed Aug 18 2010 15:16:41 – 15:45:04
4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 4124320.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 1004.3 MWIPS (10.8 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 1701.1 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 228183.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 67367.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 503436.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 414605.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 75131.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 5778.7 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2269.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 524.2 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 350930.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 4124320.4 353.4
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1004.3 182.6
Execl Throughput 43.0 1701.1 395.6
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 228183.0 576.2
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 67367.7 407.1
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 503436.2 868.0
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 414605.4 333.3
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 75131.2 187.8
Process Creation 126.0 5778.7 458.6
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2269.0 535.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 524.2 873.7
System Call Overhead 15000.0 350930.5 234.0
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 399.1
————————————————————————
Benchmark Run: Wed Aug 18 2010 15:45:04 – 16:13:49
4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 9407841.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Double-Precision Whetstone 3386.4 MWIPS (10.6 s, 7 samples)
Execl Throughput 3275.8 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 210500.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 64480.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 376751.5 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Pipe Throughput 890990.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Pipe-based Context Switching 210964.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
Process Creation 10179.6 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4037.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples)
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 559.9 lpm (60.2 s, 2 samples)
System Call Overhead 922751.1 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples)
System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX
Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 9407841.0 806.2
Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3386.4 615.7
Execl Throughput 43.0 3275.8 761.8
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 210500.5 531.6
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 64480.9 389.6
File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 376751.5 649.6
Pipe Throughput 12440.0 890990.7 716.2
Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 210964.0 527.4
Process Creation 126.0 10179.6 807.9
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4037.0 952.1
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 559.9 933.2
System Call Overhead 15000.0 922751.1 615.2
========
System Benchmarks Index Score 672.0
Shame on Paypal to block Egypt.
Look at it for what it is. Even on 155M/sec burst, it would still be slow d/t location. Though, with all that space and a (theoretically) reliable parent company, it would probably be a great option for data storage and archiving.
They just rent a rack at a datacentre in Cairo, its not special. Also check the amount of bandwidth going into Egypt, if they have 155Mbps (STM-1) they have cornered a big chunk of the national capacity! Its more likely that the datacentre they are in has 155Mbps into the WHOLE datacentre and they buy a few Mbps from them.
@Anonymous I just want to know what’s your issue?
pointless posts if it was techincal general posts it would be ok but you have’nt even tried any of our services, as we(CityNet team) care about peoples review we’re inviting you to join us for a couple of days just to give out true technical feed back to people as that’s what i believe this blog was made for.
@Anonymouse Well this provider-bashing is really getting me annoyed and im pretty sure everyone else in the community feel the same to some extent. Either bring proof to your points or please stop this
How to pay this via paypal??
> Mohamed from CityNotHost sent me an email about their latest VPS offer. It was Xen last time around,
There’s typo in name, also probably i’ll order VPS tommorow :)
Ok, finally I bought 6months vps with them.
Speed result for cachefly:
My point of view:
I had a lot of troubles with Mohammad from their support… but Khalid is great guy and he aided me a lot.
So I think in the end it was worth it..
@Asim – you can examine the facts for yourself. Check out their IP range, check their license with NTRA (Egyptian regulator), phone their datacentre or be one of their ‘longterm’ customers. The information is there if you want to see it.
@Khalid – Who says I haven’t tried your services extensively already?
While Internet anonymity gives everyone a voice, I think “Anonymous” might have gone too far. I know you might have years of experience in the industry, but as representative of hosting companies I do not think it is appropriate to continuously repeat what you have already said. Commented once/twice would be enough, and please just leave it and let consumers like myself to digest and make judgement.
Regarding NTRA issue and IP Address Range.
* CityNet Telecom Licensed From NTRA (Egyptian Regulation) on July 2006
* OUR IP Addresses Range Registered to CITYNET TELECOM, S.A.E. check with domaintools.com or Afrinic.net
e.g. IP 196.46.188.1
* we are Afrinic Member Since 2005 http://www.afrinic.net
* CityNet Autonomous number AS33785.
* CityNet Call Center Phone number 19260 from inside Egypt or +20 15354448 from any other country.
@Mtalaat: Please support Paypal :)
@citynethost-customer
How about their network & node uptime ?
They cannot support Paypal when Paypal won’t operate in their country. If you are so concerned about your credit card, go purchase a non-reloadable debit gift card from a gas station, drug store, grocery store. The average rate to purchase one is the amount you want plus an activation fee of $5-8. Do not get Wal-Mart RELOADABLE gift cards. They charge a monthly fee. I’ve had excellent success with “A Gift For You” (giftcardmall.com – it’ll say this on the back) or “VanillaVisa” cards.
Just go online, toss in your info and activate it online.
The Wal-Mart Green Dot cards take a few days for you to get your personalized card. We don’t need that.
@Admin That’s fair enough
@Tor Thanks for your suggestion
@All Just keep an eye always on our offers
Just ordered, everything works fine but it’s too bad that irc isn’t allowed :(
What else isn’t allowed?
IRC isn’t allowed? I can’t find this in their TOS.
But anyway.. who would like to have some bouncher from Egypt connected to some .us, .eu or asian IRC network anyway?
(Connection reset by peer)
(Ping timeout)
(EOF From client)
I agree, Mr.Tor; buying prepaid debit cards is the way to go when buying items online… minus the tossing in of *your* info. ;)
From blazevps
I ordered a backup VPS from CityNetHost a few days ago, so far I am extremely pleased with both the service and the technical support. Khalid was wonderful at answering all of my questions. I could not be happier. Hopefully I wont run into any issues. As for the Paypal issue. A re-loadable credit card is a great work around.
@Santosh – I don’t see how a wget result on cachefly from your BlazeVPS system contributes to this post?
Yeah, waiting for paypal, too.
Hum, interesting. Is there anything else not allowed? And is there just not allowed or are there some blocked ports? (somebody who has a server there could please try?)
Anyway, how is it possible to offer that for so cheap? Just a way to get the company known?
I purchased a CityNet VPS for use as a backup to my existing VPS server. Though I’ve only had it for a few days now, the biggest problem I had is with DNSBL (blacklisting) of their IP’s.
The range they are using for their VPS’s has apparently recently been converted from dynamic DSL…in fact, they are still listed as follows:
inetnum: 196.46.189.0 – 196.46.191.255
netname: CITYNET
descr: DSL IP Pools
Additionally, the whole “C” class is listed and pretty dirty, according to RATS-Dyna…however, all DNSBL’s where my CityNet IP was listed have responded (within approximately 48 hours) and my IP is now clean, so maybe the DNSBL listing isn’t as bad of an issue as I first thought.
Just my 72 hours of experience and 2 cents worth.
– Acorp
I would not opt for a reloadable debit card because they will charge you monthly. A gift card, or non-reloadable one, will not charge you a monthly fee for the service usually past the 13th month of first use of the card. Reloadable cards, like Wal-Mart’s Green Dot, will charge you each month a few dollars.
Tor exit not operator: had no problem running your node? (no port blocked or other problems?) Can you get good enough speed?
Anyway, the paiement is not done once for all, but they charge you like 2 dollars a month?
Weird!
@Acorp
This problem fixed after your notification by 2 hours!
route: 196.46.188.0/22
descr: Dedicated Services
origin: AS33785
mnt-by: CITYNET294-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
% Information related to ‘196.46.189.0/24AS33785’
route: 196.46.189.0/24
descr: Dedicated Servers
origin: AS33785
mnt-by: CITYNET294-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
Hum, http://client.citynethost.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=23 is down right now…
For how long will this offer be available? Is there a limited number of accounts that can be created or something like that?
Thx!
Yeah Nico is right, the offer is on the website, but the order-form takes you to the “normal” offers only – pretty sad, would have loved to have one in Africa, but hey – if they don’t want our business, so be it.
Dear ALL
We have just updated our Web site to the latest WHMCS version released few days ago.
Sorry for the down time.
You can place your order now guys :)
@ Mark
This is Link to $2.50 512MB VPS OpenVZ offer
http://www.citynethost.com/vps104offer.asp
CityNet Host New Payment Options
AlertPay and MoneyBokers.com, and Credit Card as well.
Wow nice. Now I can also process my invoices :)
Will you accept Liberty Reserve, too?
What is the situation with IPv6, is it planned, how soon?
Are tunnels supported? (tun, sit modules in the kernel)?
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: eg: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.2 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 14:55:39 MSD 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.3 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.4 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 11:47:04 up 1:09, 1 user, load average: 0.40, 0.26, 0.12; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Mon Aug 23 2010 11:47:04 - 12:15:17 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 5243041.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1153.1 MWIPS (10.7 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1707.2 lps (29.8 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 226238.4 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 66464.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 508520.0 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 435043.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 81554.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 5641.5 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 3257.0 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 709.7 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 359200.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 5243041.5 449.3 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1153.1 209.6 Execl Throughput 43.0 1707.2 397.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 226238.4 571.3 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 66464.0 401.6 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 508520.0 876.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 435043.5 349.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 81554.6 203.9 Process Creation 126.0 5641.5 447.7 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 3257.0 768.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 709.7 1182.8 System Call Overhead 15000.0 359200.2 239.5 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 439.7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Mon Aug 23 2010 12:15:17 - 12:43:39 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11938424.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 3537.5 MWIPS (10.7 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3450.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 218417.9 KBps (30.1 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 63767.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 341650.2 KBps (30.2 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 996191.5 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 232170.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 10109.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 5723.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 755.6 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 976416.9 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11938424.7 1023.0 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3537.5 643.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 3450.8 802.5 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 218417.9 551.6 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 63767.0 385.3 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 341650.2 589.1 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 996191.5 800.8 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 232170.0 580.4 Process Creation 126.0 10109.8 802.4 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 5723.6 1349.9 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 755.6 1259.3 System Call Overhead 15000.0 976416.9 650.9 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 740.7Well, it took a few hours but now my VPS is up. I only ordered it for testing purposes and everything seems to work as well as one can expect for the price. Cannot say much about the speed yet but really: do you expect to get top service for bottom price?
For a developer/tester this looks just fine for the price. Well, OpenVZ is absolutely not what I prefer but once again: price matters.
@mkn
We are not providing only Low specs VPS, we also provide premium VPS Packages on Xen and OpenVZ platform, check other VPS packages http://www.citynethost.com/vps.asp
Why i can’t order special offer with one-month payment?
My VPS is up, no issues but the SolusVM itself is down. How can I open support tickets?
When will you support Paypal?
@Asim
Hmm, I can access the SolusVM.
Anyway you may submit ticket at http://client.citynethost.com/, or just send an email (http://www.citynethost.com/contactus.asp) to the support.
@Asim Zeeshan
you can open support ticket the same way you you sent us a ticket asking about available payment options.
CityNet URL to ticket system. http://client.citynethost.com/
VPS Control Panel always up you may need to add (:5353) to the end of the control panel URL.
Have a nice time.
@Mtalaat I know about how to creat a ticket but your entire website + WHMCS was down. However, the VPS was running all the time :)
Paypal does not operate in Egypt
Not sure about the rest, but the uptime isn’t great so far for the node I’m on. This is not a complain though, but for those who are interested, take note that the VPS may be restarted anytime without warning.
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1053/citynethost.jpg
Other than that things work perfectly fine.
@eLohkCalb – Graphs show this for me to on my SpaceRich VPS. I don’t actually have downtime though – It is just a problem with the graph.
@Jackk
I’m sure it’s down. I can’t SSH, and the website I put on cherokee is down too. I have nagios installed and am monitoring the uptime too. :)
Ah OK then – Hope you don’t experience too much! xD
I am not sure why you do not talk with us before you post here guys :)
It was a Node Restart. a customer trying to abuse the service, suspended a vm then restarted.
it is ok now
They changed the offer to $7.50 for 3 months now, sneaky :)
Hey!
Are all ports open / available?
When you say IRC is forbidden: is it blocked and even accessing an irc server with a text client for example is not possible or is it only forbidden to set up an irc server?
Is tor node allowed? (as it uses lot of ressources) : tor admin, did you have any problem?
thx!
I do not understand why someone said that IRC is forbidden, there is nothing about it in TOS, and IRC ports are not blocked.
As for the service itself, the VPS works ok, however I am still waiting some kernel modules that I requested to be loaded. When this is done, I will be fully satisfied with the service.
Go into live chat they do not have it explicitly stated however the livechat sales rep will tell you that it is forbidden. I feel like their TOS is not very clear. Almost as if they leave it open with enough room to accidentally hang yourself.
Just my 2 cents.
@Cody,
Sorry for not able to allow IRC Service.
our Terms modified to mention the following
Sending unsolicited email (spamming), using Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bots / clients / servers / bouncers is prohibited. Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC is prohibited. Impersonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC is prohibited. IRC services which are serving as a command and control channels for bots are prohibited.
You’re talking like IRC was invented for botnets or something else which is illegal :O
@Mtalatt,
Thank you for clearing everything up on your terms of service page, when I first looked through them I found it a little disheartening that there was so much left out. I like to be able to know exactly what I can and can not do on a provider’s servers. I realize developing the perfect TOS is a time consuming endeavor, and I thank you for taking the time to clarify everything, it shows you care about what your customers think.
@z,
You’re comment made my day.
still, changing to 3-months-minimum sucks (sorry, just my opinion)
@Mark
only $7.50 Quarterly!!
* 512MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
* 50GB storage
* 1000GB/month data transfer
* OpenVZ/SolusVM
Can you find a better price with same specs.
Waiting for the PAYPAL payment option.
I signed up 9 days ago, my account is still stuck in the “Pending” status.
I’ve opened a ticket and asked them to cancel and refund my fees. We’ll see how it goes.
Doug
Did order and got my VPS the day after. Maybe i’ve been lucky but so far it’s working.
I’m wondering if it’s really possible to use 1TB a month as the “It was a Node Restart. a customer trying to abuse the service, suspended a vm then restarted.” didn’t sound good…
Tor node operator, still no problem?
Anyway, little wget to check out the download speed:
–2010-08-30 10:13:12– http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net… 140.99.94.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.94.175|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test’
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.38M/s in 44s
2010-08-30 10:13:56 (2.29 MB/s) – `100mb.test’ saved [104857600/104857600]
FINISHED –2010-08-30 10:13:56–
Downloaded: 1 files, 100M in 44s (2.29 MB/s)
Downloading the same file hosted on the citynet VPS from another server (NL) to test the upload speed:
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test’
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.82M/s in 37s
2010-08-30 09:30:01 (2.67 MB/s) – `100mb.test’ saved
why don’t they just use a payment gateway like 2checkout.com so that way all paypal payments can be converted to bank fundings
@Doug Eubanjs
(I signed up 9 days ago, my account is still stuck in the “Pending” status.)
We refunded your $2.50 payment according to your request.
All our Orders completed within 2 hours. We process a lot of orders daily due to our very low $2.50 512MB VPS offer. You had to contact us during the last 9 days to know why your order pending, but we did not hear from you.
if you still want your VPS retry to order.
Interesting…
Mtalaat: why did you start a so cheap offer? To experiment with the market? To use more bandwidth and test your capacities, to help your company be known?
How can that be economically reliable if there is no overselling?
Just wanted to reply to what Mtalaat wrote.
I re-read the four “Welcome”/”Payment Accepted”/”Thanks” messages I received when I signed up. None of them mentioned that I “had to contact us during the last 9 days to know why your order pending, but we did not hear from you”.
Also, obviously not all of your orders are filled within 2 hours, I believe mine would have been stuck in the pending status permanently had I not opened a ticket. Also, I received an email from them asking me to “call my bank to ask if they had debited $14 from my account”, then an email asking me to ignore the last email.
I really feel like there are some procedural issues in support/billing/provisioning with this company.
Doug
@Irson
This $2.50 price is a limited time offer. we usually sell this 512MB VPS promo package at $19.00
http://www.citynethost.com/vps.asp
@Doug Eubanks
I hope if you asked us to activate your VPS.
Mtalaat.
And this is limited in time or in number or VPS?
Anyway, is this the same quality as your 19$ VPS?
Thanks for your reply!
@Irson
Limited time offer, this offer will expire very soon.
All our VPS are same quality.
======================================================================== BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 5.1.2) System: egypt.li-node.com: GNU/Linux OS: GNU/Linux -- 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.2 -- #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 14:55:39 MSD 2010 Machine: i686 (unknown) Language: en_US.utf8 (charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968", collate="ANSI_X3.4-1968") CPU 0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET CPU 3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (5600.2 bogomips) Hyper-Threading, x86-64, MMX, Physical Address Ext, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, SYSCALL/SYSRET 03:41:18 up 6 days, 11:24, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.05, 0.01; runlevel 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 31 2010 03:41:18 - 04:13:14 4 CPUs in system; running 1 parallel copy of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 5343008.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 1123.1 MWIPS (10.7 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 1570.6 lps (29.7 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 210885.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 64164.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 481212.7 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 425150.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 63881.2 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 5190.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 2947.7 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 641.3 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 352906.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 5343008.2 457.8 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 1123.1 204.2 Execl Throughput 43.0 1570.6 365.3 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 210885.7 532.5 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 64164.0 387.7 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 481212.7 829.7 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 425150.6 341.8 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 63881.2 159.7 Process Creation 126.0 5190.8 412.0 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 2947.7 695.2 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 641.3 1068.8 System Call Overhead 15000.0 352906.7 235.3 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 410.6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benchmark Run: Tue Aug 31 2010 04:13:14 - 04:54:12 4 CPUs in system; running 4 parallel copies of tests Dhrystone 2 using register variables 11340023.4 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Double-Precision Whetstone 3543.5 MWIPS (10.7 s, 7 samples) Execl Throughput 3014.4 lps (29.6 s, 2 samples) File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 201220.2 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 55477.9 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 600740.0 KBps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Pipe Throughput 760930.6 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Pipe-based Context Switching 191856.7 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) Process Creation 7128.8 lps (30.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 4220.6 lpm (60.0 s, 2 samples) Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 561.9 lpm (60.1 s, 2 samples) System Call Overhead 687572.0 lps (10.0 s, 7 samples) System Benchmarks Index Values BASELINE RESULT INDEX Dhrystone 2 using register variables 116700.0 11340023.4 971.7 Double-Precision Whetstone 55.0 3543.5 644.3 Execl Throughput 43.0 3014.4 701.0 File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks 3960.0 201220.2 508.1 File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks 1655.0 55477.9 335.2 File Copy 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks 5800.0 600740.0 1035.8 Pipe Throughput 12440.0 760930.6 611.7 Pipe-based Context Switching 4000.0 191856.7 479.6 Process Creation 126.0 7128.8 565.8 Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) 42.4 4220.6 995.4 Shell Scripts (8 concurrent) 6.0 561.9 936.4 System Call Overhead 15000.0 687572.0 458.4 ======== System Benchmarks Index Score 648.1my benchmark results (hope it formats correctly)
Thank you Asim for this benchmark.
I think this post is the longest on LEB (103 comments so far) :)
@Asim — hey what do you plan to do with your “li-node.com” domain? :)
@Mtalaat — you have to beat this post here first…
@Mtalaat Your Welcome!
@LEA Nothing! Its just a domain name, hosted on one of my iweb Cpanel servers (I know you HATE CPanel :P) where I create sub-domains and point them to my VPSes and other VMs at home. Its easy to remember a sub-domain name rather then bunch of numbers that we call IP :)
Dear, server for me is ok, but not support. You know is possible request back money?
Thanks
@EricMix
Who said no support, we receive a lot of support tickets daily, we answer them all.
You need to send email to support[@]citynethost.com or open a support ticket.
Or chat with live support if you want.
Great company for this price.
No problems so far, everything works well. My only disappointment with this service is that IRC is not allowed. I do not understand why some hosters forbid it. Well, it *is* perfectly okay to disallow (from TOS):
> Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC
> Impersonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC
> IRC services which are serving as a command and control channels for bots
But why disallow just using an IRC client or bouncer at all (also in TOS), when the user is never even planning to cause problems or run a botnet/server/spamming. IRC is not an unlawful activity, it is used today by thousands of people for legitimate and serious communication, for example see http://freenode.net/
No problems so far, everything works well. My only disappointment with this service is that IRC is not allowed. I do not understand why some hosters forbid it. Well, it *is* perfectly okay to disallow (from TOS):
> Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC
> Impersonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC
> IRC services which are serving as a command and control channels for bots
But why disallow just using an IRC client or bouncer at all (also in TOS), when the user is never even planning to cause problems or run a botnet/server/spamming. IRC is not an unlawful activity, it is used today by thousands of people for legitimate and serious communication, for example see the IRC network FreeNode.
@Mtalaat
support.. mmm 4 hour for simply ticket
Thanks
@EricMix
What kind of support ?
– sales/billing : you must look at their working hours
– technical : 4 hours is normal for cheapo unmanaged service. This is what i get from another cheapo unmanaged providers. Especially if not in their working hours.
rm, if you read the T&C again, irc is fine. They just don’t allow certain usage, spam etc.
D. Sending unsolicited email (spamming), using Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bots / clients / servers / bouncers is prohibited. Flooding, cloning, spoofing, harassment, or otherwise hindering the ability of others to properly use IRC is prohibited. Impresonating other users, advertising, and spamming via IRC is prohibited. IRC services which are serving as a command and control channels for bots are prohibited.
It’s worded a little confusingly perhaps, but if IRC was outright banned it would say that. As long as you’re not doing anything annoying or disruptive, irc is allowed.
@Gary
This is what TOS says:
> Sending unsolicited email (spamming), using Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bots / clients / servers / bouncers is prohibited.
If it was saying:
> Sending unsolicited email, spamming via Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bots / clients / servers / bouncers is prohibited.
then I’d agree with you.
As it is currently, IRC is forbidden completely… maybe Mohammed could clarify that?
Dear,
I have talk with Mohamed and is all ok
Thanks ;-)
Ah, I was in the middle of a reply explaining why I thought the comma after (spamming) was a typo. :)
Glad to hear you got it clarified, and impressed at how quickly he replied to you.
@EricMix
Thank you for changing your mind.
@Gray,
Unfortunately we are not allowing IRC or IRC related services. IRC servers are commonly abused, from DDOS attacks to mass flooding from botnets and proxy servers.
Customers who are running busy web sites or online store will not feel comfortable if they know an IRC server running on the same node.
Attacks usually slow down or may completely shutdown a node for hours.
We are caring about our customers more than selling more VPSes.
Any way there are a lot of VPS providers on this blog who love to sell you VPS for your IRC server.
@ Mtalaat – you should fix the wording in your TOS to clarify then. Plenty of people use irc without any problem, and the current wording implies that IRC is allowed as long as it isn’t disruptive.
We had purchased a vps from them, as of now everything seems to be alright. Support is also quite ok, they reply within few hours, but this servers are 100% unmanaged servers, they give only hardware and service, no technical offerings.No good for newbie like me,but worth a try for experienced hands.
We accept PayPal now
@Mtalaat thanks, I have just used it to pay my recurring invoice :)
what about google checkout? I have very bad experience with paypal
i chat with sales support, he say that not accept paypal
so who is true???
sorry for miss understanding here.citynethost.net accep paypal
sorry all
I was skeptical at first, server in egypt, etc…
But I bought one to test, actually their server is faster than the one with spacerich in chicago DC.
ping is good, their template is better than others.
try it, this is amazingly above my expectation.
> But I bought one to test, actually their server is faster than the one with spacerich in chicago DC.
Yep, especially for those who are in Europe, Egypt will be better for you network-wise than any location in the US.
It is only about 50-60 msec away from for example London and Paris.
OMG this vps is slow I just bought one and I started installing virtualmin and it’s taking like more than an hour to install…
@Sushi
Please open a ticket to check out your VPS.
@Sushi
The price speaks for itself.
The product is good for it price.
@Dean,
Although this a low priced promo. we are selling a good quality VPS. if you have an issue you can contact our support team, we will do our best to make our customer satisfied.
@Dean
it is not fair to assume that slow = normal with this offer just because it is low-priced.
E.g. my VPS works ok (fast) right now.
@rm @Mtalaat
I just say this is good offer and you should except getting more then 1-2mbps… :P
(already got 2 vps with them…)
I think the node just took a nose dive…
Back now, and the node’s been restarted without warning. :/
@Gary
Yes Gary, it was a node restart, you are monitoring our nodes very well :)
If I’m going to be using the VPS for anything important I like to monitor it for a while before moving anything onto it. :)
You might want to tell khaled Ahmed because in a support ticket he said my VPS hadn’t been restarted.
Out of interest, why the sudden restart with no notice?
He thought it was a VPS Control panel related issue. but it is fine now.
Yes, everything looks fine now.
Sudden restart due to a customer abusing our node. some times we can not checkout the high load before we restart the machine. Sorry for that but it happen with any VPS provider.
It was premature to praise this vps, mine is gone.
where did it go? I don’t know.
Maybe maintenance like on my node. Mine’s still up. Mohamed seems like a good guy, I’m sure he’ll sort it out for you.
It came back after I sent a ticket, but it’s so slow that I could go to bathroom and come back, and it’s still loading.
@john,
Please open a ticket if you still have an issue with your VPS speed.
I already did, but no answer, Ticket #958612
@john
Your VPS moved to a new node, please read ticket update.
waiting for your comment regarding vps speed.
now it’s good. thanks.
now i waiting build my vps.
@Mtalaat My VPS died today, please check the ticket ID : 157481 … Waiting for a long time, not livesupport and the support ticket also not answered since for a long time.
@Kamrul
We answered your ticket.
Thanks Mtalaat, I believe now my problem will be solved. CityNetHost – One of the best host, Thumbs up!
I think Mtalaat can write to the support mails rather than answering here, some of the mails are getting answers like auto reply- or as “hey you got what you want to get….” kind of thing.
You are offering 1 IP for 1$, but when you go to cart then the price is 3$/IP Address
@daniel
1$ per ip for month.
3 months = 3 * 1$ = 3$
the vps speed is even faster than any spacerich server in the state, amazing!
Good price. Can some1 confirm paying them using PayPal? Thank you.
@dean,
oh thanks, that’s true I somehow, overseen this :(
@wing Loon
I paid with payal, no problem.
@john, thank u…how’s ur VPS so far with CityNetHost?
Hi,
i want to know, is egypt categorized into offshore/onshore hosting?
and i see in their tos not mention about warez..so is this ok to put some warez files in ur VPS?
regards
@buzzknow
Not OK see 1.B) at http://www.citynethost.com/terms.asp
“and laws protecting intellectual property including copyright”
@rm
i see .. so i must cancel to buy this vps :(
my plan i want to storage some movie rip, bcause i’m maniac movie :D
but, i’m waiting confirmation from cityhost crew about my plan ..
thanks
Does anyone experience lag on their vps? haven’t heard anything from support =[
@Sushi,
We answer all our Support tickets.
Please drop an email support@citynethost.com if you have any issues.
I’ve orderd this plan from citynethost, and I like to give some feedback:
+Very fast activation (almost instant)
+Pretty good VPS performance
-Unusuala port speed (~10Mbps Meterd)
-Slow control pannel
-The Backup is not working…
just for the completeness sake: there are my comments with speed and ping tests here http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/citynethost-3-openvzxen-vps-with-128mb-in-egypt/ :)
Ping test:
Ping statistics for 41.223.x.x:
Packets: Sent = 8, Received = 8, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 102ms, Maximum = 184ms, Average = 161ms
@wappi: where are you located? I’m in Poland (Europe) and my ping values are like this:
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 96.634/99.919/106.886/2.987 ms
@ksx4system: I’m from Romania.
It is now the third time I have to open a ticket asking to load “tun tunnel4 ip6_tables ip6table_filter ip6t_REJECT” kernel modules. They do load them, and afterwards my tunneling app and firewall work great. But each time after the host node reboots, these are not loaded again. I have to wait hours or days for a ticket answer and manual reload.
I don’t understand, how can there be such a great difficulty to configure this permanently. Maybe someone familiar with OpenVZ/CentOS(as far as I know) can help us out and describe for them the best way to make kernel modules load automatically on a reboot in that distro?
Relive me (modprobe tun) loaded automatically every time we have to reboot the node.
/etc/sysconfig/vz-scripts/CTID.mount
modprobe tun
@rm
tunnel4 ip6_tables ip6table_filter ip6t_REJECT loaded for you
we used to enable modprobe tun only.
@Mtalaat perhaps you mistaken and working on a wrong node?
tun
tunnel4
ip6_tables
ip6table_filter
ip6t_REJECT
– are not loaded on node5 right now. I get:
> tun_create: No such device
> # ip6tables -F
> FATAL: Module ip6_tables not found.
> ip6tables v1.4.2: can’t initialize ip6tables table `filter’: iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
> Perhaps ip6tables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
This all worked fine before yesterday’s downtime.
I bought VPS a month ago, thought it was a good deal. My VPS restarts automatically. I endup with refund. I will definitely try them again once there nodes are stable.
@Khurram
As for me I don’t mind ocassional reboots, they were like once per 10-15 days on my node. If the reboots weren’t breaking my config, that is. Well Mohammed fixed the modules issue now, thanks to him. I only hope that it will be not broken by reboots anymore.
http://citynethost.com dosent work? Also my vps looks like a shutdown? Network problems?
They are single homed and probably has been a DDoS attack.
yeah, something happened.
reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.8.1.e Fri Oct 8 12:36 – 17:18 (04:41)
reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.8.1.e Fri Oct 8 10:34 – 17:18 (06:43)
reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.8.1.e Fri Oct 8 09:00 – 17:18 (08:17)
It had a good month or so uptime before that. The only reason it wasn’t longer was me testing things.
I’m pretty impressed so far with this VPS. I use it for testing, backups, and as an “rsync gateway” to Amazon S3, and it’s been great. :)
Sorry guys for service outage, a partial power outage occurred due to a power control panel failure on our data center.
My issue from http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/citynethost-2-5-512mb-openvz-vps-in-egypt/#comment-10802 arisen again after a reboot. Last time they fixed nothing, as it turns out. And now no resonse to ticket for 24+ hours.
@rm
No need to raise this issue again as we fixed this issue according to your request. tun/tap modules automatically loaded in case of node reboot as I told you last week.
Yes it got fixed and ticket answered 5 minutes after I posted the above message.
As for if there is a need to raise the issue or not, we’ll see after the next reboot, you assured me it is fixed 6 times, and after reboot it was not.
Waiting for set up. Paid 8 hours ago.
No automatic set-up.
The server is down few hours after signed up. Can’t use their ticketing system either. I doubt that their vps service is reliable. Their main site is down too. Wow.
Looks like they’ve been having problems. Packet loss and everything’s running very slowly. hopefully it sorts itself out.
This is what I got a while ago – the speed is actually slower than my robotics 56k modem:
[someone@somewhere local]#wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
–2010-10-16 13:31:24– http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net… 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 10485760 (10M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `10mb.test’
0% [ ] 65,160 5.66K/s in 40s
2010-10-16 13:32:04 (1.60 KB/s) – Read error at byte 65160/10485760 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.
eLohkCalb, you are using 56k modem? OMG
i just trying to download from http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test too, speed between 2-8 KB/s, awsome! from my home i got 300-400 KB/s
few days ago they reboot node server without send notification, thats very2 bad, and too much packet loss.
Haha, no I’m currently on 6mbps ADSL, but I miss the days when it was 56k (I still have those modems though, from 14.4k to 56k). Things are moving too fast these days.
We are handling this issue with our upstream service provider. expected to be solved within few hours.
DOS Attack on some of our VPS Nodes detected. Service is normal now.
wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test--2010-10-15 19:04:07-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/10mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10485760 (10M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `10mb.test'
100%[======================================>] 10,485,760 1.38M/s in 7.6s
2010-10-15 19:04:15 (1.32 MB/s) - `10mb.test' saved [10485760/10485760]
Getting back to normal now. :)
Ok. I see several posts on speed test showing wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /div/null.
What does this mean? I know cachefly.net is a company that provides a very fast media hosting. I think when you do wget against them, it only proves how cachefly is fast. Am I missing anything? How can you tell citynethost’s speed with this info?
Thanks,
Wget downloads the file to the local machine, testing the speed between the remote machine and the local machine, nothing more.
-O /dev/null means it saves the file to the virtual device /dev/null, which in reality discards the data and doesn’t write it to disk. It makes sense to test the network without writing the file to disk, in case the drive IO bottlenecks the transfer. The network could only download as fast as the drive could write, otherwise.
It’s just one of the ways to get an idea of how fast a box will perform, and in this case it’s incoming network throughput we’re testing.
Thanks! You helped me understand. Here is my test result.
[root@dylejoo html]# Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[root@dylejoo html]# Saving to: `/dev/null'
>
> 100%[=====================================================================>] 104,857,600 1.43M/s in 93s
>
> 2010-10-16 01:39:46 (1.08 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
I used other vps that costs much more, but it’s speed shocked me. It is unbelievable.
root@li200-161:~# wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O /dev/null
--2010-10-15 21:52:06-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 58.2M/s in 1.7s
2010-10-15 21:52:08 (58.2 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]
After signing up to this vps plan, I pointed my domain name: dylejoo.com to their DNS sever:
ns1.citynethost.com 196.46.188.5
ns2.citynethost.com 196.46.188.20
My domain name has been upon the air, and a headache has started. ping, tracert, and nslookup don’t work for my domain name.
My ip is: 41.223.52.205. Anyone had the same problem? Is there a way to check my domain name is recorded to their DNS server?
Thanks!
Any reason that you point your domain to their DNS? I don’t think they will host your domain, but you can either self-host (meaning creating your own DNS server), or use any of the free DNS hosting providers (LEA has compiled a list here – http://www.lowendbox.com/wiki/free-dns-providers).
Thank you for providing info on free DNS hosting provider. It seems like they don’t host my domain even they provided their DNS server info when I signed up:
ns1.citynethost.com 196.46.188.5
ns2.citynethost.com 196.46.188.20
I am researching on how to self-host. I may use one of the free DNS hosting provides.
For self-hosting you’d need to install bind or something similar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_DNS_server_software), however if this is the first name you’re setting up DNS server it might take you a while to explore as it’s not easy to get it right the first time.
Easiest is to use the free providers, and you don’t need to worry about setting up a secondary DNS server as well. :)
typo
first
name*time* you’reI decided to use one of the free DNS hosting providers. It seems like it has a better performance compared to use citynethost DNS. I see there are much less hops when you check trace route. In my case, I’ve saved more than 10 routes to reach from Hongkong to my site. It is a brilliant advice!
@udaman
Your DNS Records created
Thank you for your prompt service. It is working now.
server down again, once a week now.
damn the uptime is horrible…
It’s not great, but for the price I can’t complain too much.
23:02:15 up 11 days, 11:11, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
You’ve got it wrong. It’s about the connection uptime. Today for example the server failed to respond at least a few times.
That could be for one of a hundred reasons. No defending them. Just can’t make that statement and assume that it;s on their end. May be though.
Say network uptime then. :)
I can’t vouch for the network uptime in the last 11 days, because I don’t use it for anything production. It’s just a testbed/messing around box. For the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola per month, I can’t complain. :)
Their prices are very low but I think they’re not reliable.
TUN/TAP disappears after every reboot, I don’t even try to use it anymore.
Date/time is off by 8 hours after every reboot, stays this way, uncorrected, for days and weeks.
Tickets about this are ignored, or lied to be “fixed”, only for the same problem to reappear 1 week later on next reboot.
And now a full week of 1000ms+ ping, then about 6 reboots and a 12-hour downtime – still not even up.
Avoid like the plague.
Avoid like the ten plagues? ;)
Have troubles with that VPS since some month, connection speed is about 40KB/s on average, sometime the server is just not available at all. Have opened support ticket, but just getting off-topic answers. it’s been going on for 5 days already.
After my last message:
“40KB/s not a bad speed? really? It looks like peak times can last for 24 hours a day for a weeks… without any breaks…”
and after rating support answer as “Poor”(cause it was absolutely meaningless) , I’ve got disconnected at all… Can’t ping my VPS, can’t boot it from vpsadmin control panel, can’t do anything…. Worst VPS hosting at the moment, with whom I had faced.
Same trouble here. Speed is never above 1 Mbit/s (capped?), most of the time around 50 KB/s. 2-3 Reboots per month, TUN/TAP is gone after wards. Takes about 5-6 days and 3-4 tickets to reenable TUN/TAP. Its a waste of money and pure trouble. I went to onexenvps now, it’s huge trouble to live with 64MB Ram, but at least uptime+speed is ok. Maybe I stay at Torqhost, it’s expensive, but best so far (Speed, Support, Uptime).
very bad service ….alays offline… i was fed up of this host … never ever go with this host.
its very bad hosting… guyzz never ever choose this hosting company ….if you choose this hosting your website will be active for 1 or 2 days for an year….. their support is terrible….
This is one of the bad hosting providers do not ever go with them… They are incredibly bad …shared hosting is better then their vps… it sucks… and their support, My god ,no words to explain…if you ask them a question they will ask you one more question which is irrelevant…